geography processing techniques

• * Compare imports / exports
• * Changes in crops grown over time

• * Types of exports
• * Temperature
• * Land use in a town
• * Relationship between services and settlement size

• * Land use in the CBD of a city
• * Sphere of influence
• * Land use on a farm
• * Traffic / pedestrian flows

• * Across a river valley
• * Relationship between land-use and soil type

• * River meanders
• * Corrie
• * Industrial landscape
• * Farming landscape

• * Of organising and presenting data / information
• * Easier to make sense of information arranged in tables
• * Can be studied or compared to show trends
• * Matrixing is a good way of storing information to show possible relationships

• o Used to compare information
• o Can be used with maps to combine information with location
• o Can be used to show +/- values

o Show relative importance of different parts

• o Show a trend or change over time
• o Show amount or rate of change, steepness and degree of change

• o Shows how the amounts are shared out
• o The relative importance of parts / sectors
• o Can be put on a map to aid comparison between places

o Way of testing connections between two sets of data e.g. relationship between GNP and Infant Mortality

• * Means of showing links between features
• * Selective way of showing information
• * Way of showing information to show and reveal patterns e.g. land use in a city. Location and distribution of shopping centres

• * Vertical representation of the contours on a map
• * Height and shape is shown, and the position of key features
• * Allows comparison of data e.g. building use and land values from CBD to city edge

• * Provide a sample of an area to bring out key features
• * Enhances information
• * Can be used to name and identify features
• * Draw attention to relationships, patterns